Svayambhū

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Svayambhū (devanāgarī: स्वयम्भू) also spelled swayambu, is a Sanskrit word meaning "self-manifested" or "created by its own accord." H. P. Blavatsky uses it as a name for the "universal spirit."[1]

In the Cosmological Notes, Mahatma M. writes:

Swayambu occupies every part of space which itself is boundless and eternal, hence must be space in one sense. Swayambu becomes Purush when coming in contact with matter.[2]

Notes

  1. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 52.
  2. Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. LBS-Appendix II (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 509.